Michael J. Johnson is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer/engineer. He is also a professor at Berklee and New England Conservatory in Boston.
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little daydreams in the shape of poems
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Dear Listener please lie down, close your eyes and put on your headphones. It's time to detach. This fully immersive audio drama will embrace you with its unique characters and original music score. All work including writing, production & scoring is done by our small, four person team. Come within and see that sometimes up is left and yet down is wrong.
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TITLE: The Long March DESCR: A day in the life of an artist… ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 132 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2024 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, noise, sound sculpture, study, meditative, anxious, chill URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial…
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The onslaught of the longest part of the day. A sequel to the forthcoming Long March. FROM: Dronescapes RELEASE: 131 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2024 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, meditative, no_131, relentless, punctuated, sound sculpture, study URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES:…
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A soundscape of flowing drones. Your guides are angels and snakes, the path is lined with twinkling bells and lanterns. Dronescape No. 130 GENRE: Binaural Ambient YEAR: 2024 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dreamscape, dronescape, 130, angels, snakes, divine, chill, relaxing, wisdom, growth, courage, binaural URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive…
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The January Protocol is repetitive. Tonic cycles within cycles, but subtly chaotic, like all Januaries, it’s relentlessly hypnotic in its madness. Dronescape Numbered 129, from 2024 TAGS: ambient, experimental, ethereal, techno, sci-fi soundtrack URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICEN…
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A study of the discontinuity between the inner self and consensus reality in the form of an experimental field-recording featuring cycling paired with ambient digital signal processing COLL: Dronescapes TRACK: 128 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2024 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: experimental, field-recording, ambient, music, cycling, displacement, fragmented, i…
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TITLE: A Meditation on Compassion DESCR: An electro-ambient meditation on compassion. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 127 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: meditation, experimental, ambient, compassion, music, dronescape, no_127 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: A…
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Long-form ambient dronemusic soundscape with binaural tones weaving over a bassy drone. TITLE: Cuckoo DESCR: Long-form ambient dronemusic soundscape with binaural tones weaving over a bassy drone. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 126 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, binaural, bipolar, drone, dronemusic, exploitation, freeloade…
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An upbeat energetic industrial/noise track to keep you moving. TITLE: Crazy For You DESCR: An energetic industrial/noise track for cycling, cleaning, working out, or running around. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 125 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, desire, dronemusic, dronescape, fieldrecording, industrial, life, love, lust…
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Here is some noise shaped with a dynamics envelope. It turned out quite percussive. It was a month of madness and anxiety and hurt, with then there was this track, in the background, taunting me from the shadows. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 124 GENRE: Dronescape LENGTH: 17:52 YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: No-124, ambient, soundscape, experimenta…
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The journey continues, in this act we are teased with the truth and tested in our resolve. Will we emerge victorious, or will we burn our world completely? FROM: Dronescapes TRACK: 123 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: #brainSwirls #ambient #dronescape #soundscape #dronecast #no_123 #monk #fieldrecording #soundsculpture #study #m…
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TITLE:: The Nobility DESCR:: A schizo-ambient journey ALBUM:: Dronescapes TRACK:: 122 GENRE:: Schizoambient YEAR:: 2023 PUB:: Quasigentsia TAGS:: schizoambient, ambient, schizophrenic URL:: Persistent MIRRORS:: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES:: Frame Grabs LICENSE:: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International…
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Emmanuel was once presented a powerful gift. The gift’s power lay in pain, in nightmare. It was a heavy burden, this human condition, Emmanuel begrudgingly accepted. A sonic meditation on restrained randomness. This ambient dronescape glides along in a long, weaving flow of tamed randomality. Hints of chaos gently emerge and submerge in the soothin…
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Some days I ruminate on it all ending. Like, just can’t it be over yet? Other days I’m happy to be alive. Currently I’m worried about a friend, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to function until I know if they’re OK. Please be OK. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 120 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dreams, experimental…
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In the midst of sensory overload, there is a symphony of chaos that drowns out all else. It is as if every sound in the universe is colliding together in a cosmic battle for dominance. The listener becomes lost in the layers of noise, unable to distinguish one sound from another, until they are enveloped in a drone that reverberates through every f…
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TITLE: Bedraggled DESCR: A generative ambient piece that explores the liminal spaces between the click track. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 118 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 118, generative, ambient, strangerThings, alarm, disarming, charming URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Fr…
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TITLE: Monk’s Trifecta, Trifecta! DESCR: An effected soundscape from an affected mind in North Central Texas, Denton to be exact. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 117 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2023 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: 117, ambient, chill, denton, drone, dronescape, effected, field-recordings, meditation, monk, noise, soothing, sound sculpture, soundscap…
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A binaural tonal piece in which nine pure tones are randomly played back in packs of three. Dronescape No. 116, 2022 TAGS: binaural, tonal, ambient, random, generated URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International…
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The Magic Door A long percussive yet soothing generative ambient piece. Dronescapes 115, 2022 TAGS: 115, alien, ambient, banger, conversation, dronescape, english, experimental, foreign language, generative, granular, percussive, russian, soundscape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LI…
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Thirty minutes from inside a ramshackle shed on a damp December afternoon in a North Texas city. Dronescape 114, 2022 TAGS: afternoon, ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, field recording, soundscape, north texas, shed, urban, vocals, monologue URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LI…
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Shaped noise for studying, meditating, or chilling. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 113 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 TAGS: ambient, drone, noise, soothing, sound sculpture, study, meditation, chill URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs | Source Images | Gallery LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial…
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A spooky transmission from an otherworldly realm cuts through your nightly ritual. FROM: Dronescapes TRACK: 112 GENRE: ambient YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: spooky, ambient, noise, drone, generated, soundscape, sound sculpture, supernatural, communications, meditative, ritual, 112, field recording, urban, night, fall, crickets, sirens URL: Per…
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TITLE: Make a Deal with the Devil DESCR: High energy track created from dripping water from a recent leak ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 111 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: percussive, ambient, click, drip, generative URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attributi…
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TITLE: Mena, Arkansas DESCR: Field recording Mena, Arkansas (Summer 2022) ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 110 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: animals, Arkansas, automobiles, birds, field-recording, insects, Mena, nature sounds, summer, night-life, planes, soundscape, trains, twilight, wind, 2022 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio…
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A glitchy little spoken-word experiment I did with some new plugins. TRACK: 109 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, spoken-word, glitch URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International…
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TITLE: Dandelion DESCR: Generative ambient tumble through punctuated consciousness ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 108 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, dronescape, monk, stem URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Inte…
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The third life is born from despair and ends in wisdom Dronescapes 107 YEAR: 2022 TAGS: ambient, drone, speculative, layered, 107, dronescape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International…
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TITLE: Candy Flip DESCR: A relaxing foray into shifting dimensions. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 106 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, generative, Soundscape, electronic, synthetic, dronescape, dronecast, 106 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: At…
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TITLE: Foley in the Rain DESCR: Organic rain and synthetic winds with effects. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 105 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, rain, wind, synthetic, organic, sound design, field recording, dronescape, 105 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LI…
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Spring is just in sight of our scanners, but this is as close as we’re likely to get, being on a parallel course, an all. Ah well, would’ve been grand. Dronescape 104 YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: noise, glitch, drone, ambient, blends, binaural, subtle, sculpted, sound-design, fx, generated, random, lateral, parallel, cyclic, spring, dronescap…
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TITLE: Firmament DESCR: It’s a tightrope, this filament that connects us together with the broader universe. It must remain taut, but flexible. When it snaps, that’s when the adventure begins. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 103 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, disruption, drone, glitch, noise, synchronicity, temporal collasp…
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Inspired by fast radio bursts and space operas. Dronescape #102 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, noise, voices, abstract, soundscape, future, experimental URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International…
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Five channel recording of the central heat constantly turning on and off because roommates can’t keep their mitts off it. I filtered out everything but the electrical hum, and mutilated it. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 101 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2022 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, noise, electrical hum, drone, h2n, reaper, ffpmeg, avectorscope, res…
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TITLE: My Noisy World DESCR: A recording of an urban neighborhood street in North Texas. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 100 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, soundscape, cityscape, urban, residential, neighborhood, street life, dronescape, 100, spatial, stereo, earbuds, noise URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive V…
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Exploring the links between perception and memory. TRACK: 99 GENRE: Experimental Ambient YEAR: 2021 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalBy Franklyn Monk
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TITLE: Noise Star: Grinding for Life DESCR: You do what you havta ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 98 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB : Quasigentsia TAGS: Experimental, ambient, soundscape, dronecore, dronescape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike …
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TITLE: Tornado Alley DESCR: My 97th Dronescape is an ambient soundscape featuring field-recordings, and percussive drones. A creation so intense it drove me to the brink and my friends even further. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 97 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, soundscape, fieldrecording, percussive, drone, dronescape, 9…
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Generative Jiggies Dronescape no. 96 YEAR: 2021 TAGS: ambient, soundart, experimental, drone, generative, dronescape, 96 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalBy Franklyn Monk
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TITLE: Courting the Continuum DESCR: Like all relationships the continuum thrives beneath chaos. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 95 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, drone, dronescape, experimental, generative, narrative, noise, relationships, rhythmic, static, tempo, 95 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video |…
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The spiritual successor to The Drone of Heaven with percussive elements joining in the fun. From: Dronescapes GENRE: Ambient YEAR: 2021 TAGS: generative, ambient, drone, percussive, the forge of heaven, 94 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike …
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Getting back to my roots with this pure drone piece. TITLE: The Drone of Heaven ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 93 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: pure, roots, drone, 93 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International…
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August nights in North Texas. Cicadas sing, and humans lurk beneath summer’s shroud. EP: 92 ALBUM: Dronescapes GENRE: Field Recordings YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: industrial, drone, noise, groove, field-recordings, urban, soundscape, monotonous, summer, 92, low effort URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouT…
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TITLE: UFO DESCR: Sculpted static and noise. No instruments, or cows, were harmed during this production. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 91 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: abstract, ambient, drone, dronescape, generative, sci-fi, sculpted sound, soundscape, speculative, static, 91 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Vid…
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TITLE: Early Summer Recordings DESCR: Meditations on a succulent ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 90 GENRE: Ambient, fieldrecording YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: ambient, noise, soundscape, synthetic, natural, fieldrecording, 90, dronescapes URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Att…
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TITLE: Parameter’s Lost Children DESCR: Part 3 of Hotline — The final installment of my Hotline series of abstract soundscapes which explores a science fiction future, inspired by Varley’s Eight Worlds series. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 89 GENRE: Drone, Speculative Soundscape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: abstract, speculative, soundscape, Eigh…
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Agents are required to complete an immersive training module at the end of each mission. MAINTAINING ALLEGORICAL READINESS Deep Learn Level 2 Supplemental Packs Series 3 Cart 1 Siphon 12 Distributed by Quasigentsia DLS3C1-88_SPN-12 ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 88 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: Deep Learn, immersive learning, quas…
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TITLE: Outpost DESCR: Night shift on a long-haul asteroid ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 87 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: post-industrial, soundscape, Space Opera, drone, generated, monk, 87 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAli…
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TITLE: Delay Lines DESCR: A click track is sent through multiple delays ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 86 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: percussive, generative, delay, single-source, click track, 86, monk, dronescape URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attributi…
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TITLE: Binaural Escape: Winter Meditation DESCR: Created by routing two binaural tone generators through a series of modulators and effects. Mixed and mastered over a week of roving brownouts, and water shortages. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 85 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, experimental, generated, binaural, monk, music,…
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TITLE: The Half-Mown Hill DESCR: Full range drone from an audio sample of Houseman’s Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree, interwoven with synths triggered from the same. ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 84 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: drone, experimental, monk, music, 84, maverick URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Vi…
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TITLE: Outer Edges DESCR: An urban soundscape is transformed into calming purgatory ALBUM: Dronescapes TRACK: 83 GENRE: Dronescape YEAR: 2021 PUB: Quasigentsia TAGS: dronescapes, field-recording, monk, traffic, transform, urban, 83 URL: Persistent MIRRORS: Archive Audio | Archive Video | SoundCloud | YouTube IMAGES: Frame Grabs LICENSE: Attribution…
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